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Enterprise 2.0 as a part of the Global Enterprise

May 12, 2009 by Bertrand DUPERRIN 6 Comments

Many questioning about enterprise 2.0 these last weeks. How to make it work, how help companies to understand it, how to calculate the ROI ? So many questions that, at the end, can be summed up in only one : undestranding how these new logics can integrate into the existing and add to it. Without [...]

Filed Under: Enterprise 2.0 & Social Business, Management & HR Tagged With: adhoc, adhocracy, bpm, business process, Communities, control, Enterprise 2.0, management, organization, production, pull, push, soo, wirearchy

Must companies stop trying to organize cross-organization work ? The Nortel Case

December 23, 2008 by Bertrand DUPERRIN Leave a Comment

Nortel announced they were going to give up their complex matrix organization to focus on their business units. The purpse is to act faster, making decisions as close as possible to the market. Making decision close to the marketin reminds me of either SOO or subsidarity at a time when but is it a pure [...]

Filed Under: Management & HR Tagged With: autonomy, clients, empowerment, Human resources, market, matrix, matrix organization, nortel, organization, productivity, soo, wirearchy

Special Enterprise 2.0 event in Paris on Nov. 13. Join us !

October 17, 2008 by Bertrand DUPERRIN Leave a Comment

You all know my creeds : tools must be made to improve the way people work, companies must improve their agility by working as networks (and even more in these difficult times…) etc. ect. and this vision seems to be shared by many people who often ask me how to put it into action. Many [...]

Filed Under: Enterprise 2.0 & Social Business, Intranets and digital workplace, Management & HR, Software & Tools, strategy, Web & Usages Tagged With: bluekiwi, enteprise-2.0, jon husband, social networks, Society, stowe boyd, web-2.0, wirearchy

What if the future of organizations was SOO (or SPO) ?

June 20, 2008 by Bertrand DUPERRIN 1 Comment

The idea of this post came to me after a meeting with someone working for the French Armament Comission, a few month ago. When he asked me “do you know what our job is ?” I answered, hesitant, “Choose the weapons the army will use”. “It’s a bit of that, but it’s more complex”. “Really [...]

Filed Under: Economy & New Models, Management & HR Tagged With: adhocracy, enterprise-social-software, knowledge-economy, organization, problem solving, service oriented organization, social networks, solution providing organization, soo, spo, wirearchy

Enterprise 2.0, Management 2.0, HR 2.0 and Culture 2.0 according to Jon Husband

May 18, 2008 by Bertrand DUPERRIN Leave a Comment

As I wrote earlier, for most of Webcom audience, Jon Husband’s Keynote was the most impressive (actually it seems he enjoyed it too) Jon had the kindness to send me his slides so I can share some of them with you. Google+

Filed Under: Enterprise 2.0 & Social Business, Management & HR Tagged With: corporate culture, culture, Enterprise 2.0, hierarchy, Human resources, human resources 2.0, management, management-2.0, montreal, webcom, wirearchy

With Human-Network Cisco steps into societal innovation

May 18, 2008 by Bertrand DUPERRIN 1 Comment

When we talk about enterprise 2.0 it’s often about organization or marketing. But it can also be about activities that are not directly business related but ma be important considering the societal role enterpises now have to play in a protean ecosystem. That’s the purpose in which Cisco launched Human-Network in France. I know there’s [...]

Filed Under: Innovation, Management & HR, Web & Usages Tagged With: cisco, Communities, distributed innovation, Enterprise 2.0, ideagoras, Innovation, societal innovation, Society, sustainable development, value chain, wirearchy

Hierarchy vs Wirearchy ? Or only complementarity ?

May 9, 2008 by Bertrand DUPERRIN 4 Comments

Wirearchy is a very interesting concept I discovered weeks ago from a post from John Husband. Not that new (he’s been talking about that for a long time) but interesting enough to dig further. Facts are obvious : new tools allow a new kind of information flows, because they’ree generated by peope. Those flows allow [...]